April

Notes and handouts from April meeting.


Agenda:

Agenda​	Coaches' Workshop on Pooling Our Resources to Take IT to the Next Level 4/22/2010 5 Hours, 30 Minutes Sullivan Conference Room , AIU Central Office 475 E Waterfront Dr Homestead PA 15120
"Too few teachers experience the quality of professional development and teamwork that would enable them to be more effective educators each day. As advocates for professional learning, our job is to make sure that what we know is essential to good teaching is embedded in all teachers' [and coaches'] lives."--Stephanie Hirsch "A New Definition" in JSD Fall, 2009 (10-11) Tagul cloud of chat transcript about Professional Development
	Chris Hausammann (PIIC Mentor) and Kevin Conner (PAIU TIM)
Type of meeting:	Interactive, dynamic and engaging
Facilitator:	Various
	District instructional coaches, CFF coaches, EETT coaches
Please bring:	Laptop computers
	Agenda topics
30 (8:30-9:00)	Registration & Networking While you settle in - please complete this poll Try this audience polling system at Poll Everywhere Make a live audience poll at Poll Everywhere	Chris Hausamman and Kevin Conner
60 (9:00-10:00)	Assessing Our Needs and Goals http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ak2ADZ0DrEZodDh5dVV3XzJZZXJUOUlLRW1vNXRfNWc&hl=en NSDC Blog entries - read and react (comment) to one of these blog posts - (you need to use Firefox or Chrome to view, IE will not work) 1. Hayes Mizell: "Time for a professional learning paradigm shift" Shift 2. Stephanie Hirsh: "With technology, many old excuses are no longer valid" Excuses	Chris Hausammann, facilitator
90 (10:00- 11:30)	Cooperative Professional Development Visual Ranking Tool from Intel Go to Visual Ranking Collaborate or Die: The Future of Education	Kevin Conner, facilitator
60 (11:30-12:30)	Working Lunch	All
105 (12:30-2:15)	Reflective Planning for Action (for Individuals and Groups) Using Webspiration for group collaboration - you got a message in the email you used to register for today's event	Chris Hausamman and Kevin Conner, co-facilitators
15 (2:15-2:30)	Evaluation	All
Resource persons:	Diane Chessman, Joanna Mangiapane, Matt Dancho
Special notes:

Link to google form on needs/wants - For our Supporting Learning at Your School Form on Google: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ak2ADZ0DrEZodHV0My1XbHFHSEp5VnJRNGJKdUFsT3c&hl=en